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MONEY ORDER REGULATIONS.

MONEY ORDER REGULATIONS.

1.-On the 1st of October next, and thenceforward, Money Orders will be issued at this Office and at the Agencies thereof at Shanghae and Yokohama on all the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange Current for each Mail and charged with Com mission according to the following Scule, viz:—

For Sums not exceeding.. Above £2 and not exceeding.

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£2. 5...

7....... 10..

2-No Money Order to include a fractional part of a Penuy,

..18 cents. .36 "

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.72 "

8.-Orders drawn in the United Kingdom upon Hongkong, Shanghae, and Yoko hama, will be paid at the rate of Exchange of the day of the receipt of the advices of sach Money Orders at the places named.

4.-Alphabetical List of over 8,700 Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom, shewing the Counties in which they are situated, are hung up for public reference at this Office, and also at Shanghae and Yokohama.

5.-Applicants for Money Orders must furnish, in fall, the surname, and, at least, the initial of one Christian naine, both of the Remitter and the Payee; if the Remitter or Payse be a Peer or a Bishop his ordinary title will be sullicient, if a firm, the usual designation of such firm, such as “ Baring Brothers," will sullice, but the more term Mesir, such na "Messrs. Kivington," or the name of a Company trading under a title which does not consist of the hames of the persons composing it, such as “Caron_Co.,”

is inadmissible.

6-The Remitter, on stating that the Order is to be paid only through a Bank, to have the option of giving or withdrawing the name of the Payee, in such case the Order will be crossed in the same way the Cheques are commonly crossed when they aro intended to be paid through a Bank.

7-When an Order is presented through a Bank, a receipt by any person will bo mficient provided the Order be crossed with name of the receiving Bank, and be presented by some Person known to be ia the employ of sach Bank.

8-The signature of the Payce of a Money Order to be affixed to the Order in the place provided for the purpose. If the Payce be unable to write he must sign the receipt by making his mark in the presence of a Witness, who must sign his name, with his address in presence of the Officer who pays the Order.

-Should the Payea of a Money Order desire to receive payment in the Country in which the Order was issued, at some other Office than that in which the Order was originally drawn, the transfer will be granted, provided the Order be inclosed to the Postmaster of the Office in which it was drawn. In such case a new Order will be sed, the Commission chargeable upon which will be deducted from the amount of

the new Order,

10-In the event of a Mony Order miscarrying or being lost, a duplicate will be granted on a written application from the Payee (containing the necessary particulare, and accompanied by an additional Commission) to the Office where the original Order was payable.

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11.-On the receipt of a similar application, orders will be given to stop payment of a Money Order, or to renew a lapsel Order. The additional Commission in the last caso will be deducted from the amount of the now Order. Lapзod Orders must be presented with the application for a new Order

12-But when it is desired that any error in the name of the Remitter or Payee should be corrected, or that the amout of a Money Order should be repaid to the Remitter, or that a Lapsed Order should be renewed for payment in the Country in which the Order was originally drawn, application must be made to the Chief Money Order Office of such Country. This application must be accompanied by an additional Commission, unless it have reference to a Lapsed Order, in which case the Commission

will be deducted from the amount of the New Order.

13.-Repayment, whether of an original, or renewed, or a duplicate Order, will not be made to the Remitter until it has been ascertained that the advice has been cancelled at the Office on which the Order was originally drawn.

14.-Payment of an Order must be obtained before the end of the Sixth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn; for instance, if drawn in January, payment must be obtained before the cud of July, otherwise the Order will becoine lapsed, and a new Order (for which a second Commission, to be deducted from the ainmount of the Order, will be charged) will becoine necessary.

15.-If an Order be not paid before the end of the Twelfth Calendar Month after that in which it was drawn,-for instance, if drawn in January and not paid before the end of the following January-all claim to the Money will be forfeited, unless, under peculiar circumstrances, the Post Office of the Country in which the Order was drawn thinks proper to allow it

16-After once paying a Money Order, by whomsoever presented, the paying Office will not be liable to any further claim If a wrong payment, however, bo made oving to negligence on the part of any Officer of the Post Oflice, the Postmaster General of the Country or Colony in which the negligence occurs will, if be sce lit, require the Ollicer in fault to made good the loss.

17.-No Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously received. 18-Additional Rules for greater security against fraud, and for better working of the system generally, will be made as occasion may require.

19. Should it appear that Money Orders are used by mercantile men, or others, either in the United Kingdom or at Hongkong, Shanghai, or Yokohama. for the transmission of large sums of money, the British or Colonial Post Office, as the caso may be, will consider the propriety of increasing the Commission, and will exercise the power of wholly suspending for a time the issue of Money Orders. By Command,

F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.

1. With reference to the Notification of the 22nd ultimo, it is hereby farther notified by direction of His Excellency The GOVERNOR, that, on and after Monday, the 2nd November next, Money Orders will be grauted at this Office on the Post Offices at Shanghai and Yokohama, and in like manner Money Orders will be granted at Shanghae and Yokohama upon this Offico, for sums not exceeding Fifty Dollars, at the ruling rates for Dollars, charged with the following rates of Commission, viz :—

On Orders not exceeding $25,.. Above $25 and not exceeding $50,.

,15 cents. .30 "

2.-The Money Orders will in such case be drawn in Dollars and Cents.

8. All payments for Money Orders, whether by the Public to the Post Office, or by the Post Office to the Public, will be made in Current Dollars.

4.-The stipulations contained in the Notification of the 22nd August last, so far

as they are applicable, will be enforced in conducting the local Money Order system between Hongkong, and Shanghue and Yokohama.

General Post Office, Hongkong, 9th September, 1868.

F. W. MITCHELL,

Postmaster General,